Will a Defiant Rep. Akin Burn the GOP’s Campaign Hopes?
Republican Party sources told PJM that Akin has a plan in place to drop out, but whether or not he will actually do so is up in the air.
All in all, the “legitimate” storm seemed to stoke painful memories within the party of the “macaca” moment, when a racial epithet cost Republicans what should have been an easy re-election for Sen. George Allen in Virginia. (Allen is running again this year in a tight race against former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, but has so far remained gaffe-free.)
Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.) has been mum on the matter.
Not that Akin doesn’t have a few supporters.
“I don’t know anything about the science or the legal implications of his statement. I do know politics, and I know gotcha politics when I see it,” said Family Research Council Action PAC president Connie Mackey, adding “we support him fully and completely.”
Still, the NRSC reportedly pulled funding for Akin’s campaign, an aide told the Washington Post, and Politico reported that American Crossroads and its affiliated nonprofit Crossroads GPS canceled an ad buy on behalf of Akin. A few days before the interview aired, the NRSC touted Akin’s run as one of four key Senate races, lauding him for “running strong after a competitive primary victory.”
Even money from Akin’s Takin Back America PAC proved too hot to handle, as Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), who’s running against Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) for his seat, announced he’d be giving a $5,000 contribution from the PAC to a teen pregnancy center in Helena.
Despite the GOP quickly turning its back on Akin, Democrats gave no indication that they’ll let the matter go regardless of whether Akin stays or goes — especially as they look forward to reigniting the “war on women” meme for next week’s Republican National Convention.
“Rep. Todd Akin’s statement is another manifestation of the total disregard and disrespect of women by Republican leaders,” tweeted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) wrapped her thoughts into a fundraising email: “We need to help Claire, who’s been a strong progressive voice in the Senate on behalf of women’s rights.”
And Obama said that Akin’s comments underscored “why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.”
“So although these particular comments have led Gov. Romney and other Republicans to distance themselves, I think the underlying notion that we should be making decisions on behalf of women for their health care decisions, or qualifying forceable rape versus non-forceable rape, I think those are broader issues, and that is a significant difference in approach between me and the other party,” the president continued.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spearheaded what they said was one of their fastest-growing petitions — not to remove Akin from the ballot, but to pull him off the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
The DNC tied Akin’s comments to the GOP presidential ticket in a fundraising pitch: “Mitt Romney would ‘get rid of’ federal funding for Planned Parenthood, Paul Ryan co-sponsored a piece of legislation that would have narrowed the definition of rape, and now Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri claims there’s a biological defense against pregnancy from ‘legitimate rape.’”
“It’s time for us to move forward—not back—on women’s rights. Take a stand for women,” tweeted chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.).
And his opponent tried to hold on to Akin’s spot on the ballot. “I think for Washington party insiders to come in and try to invalidate the votes of Missourians would be radical,” McCaskill said in a phone interview with The Huffington Post. “I think that would be a very radical thing to have happen, and I can’t imagine how the Republican primary voters would think about that in Missouri.”
Akin was coming under fire not only for the rape comments, but for saying Friday that he thinks it’s time for a second look at federal “civil rights and voting rights” laws. His campaign responded with a statement that “Akin has, and always will, support the right to vote.”
The question is how much lasting damage Republicans will see from the Akin scandal. In the respect of turning the conversation from the economy back to the war on women, damage to the GOP has been done.
The defiant and determined congressman could even sully the GOP’s hopes for the White House should Democrats turn out in droves to the polls in Missouri and wipe away Romney’s slight polling advantage in the swing state.
Akin’s race is pegged as one of nine toss-ups in the Senate battleground in which Republicans need to add four seats to their current membership to take control of the upper chamber.
Forty-two of the GOP seats are safe or not up for re-election, one is likely GOP, and one leans GOP, which means Republicans have to win seven of the toss-up races, according to the latest scoring of the races at Real Clear Politics. With 47 seats safe, not up, likely, or leaning Dem, Harry Reid’s party needs just four of those toss-ups.
Asked by Huckabee if he’d be a dead weight on the GOP considering his nuclear error, Akin responded, “Nobody wants to own your mistake and I don’t think anybody should.”
‘Hannity chided Akin to think of the good of the Republican Party.’
The Three Ring Circus couldn’t beat this show.
It’s interesting how all the upper deck Hannity’s on the Titanic would never thing of asking Obama to resign for the good of the nation.
This is a disgusting political show from the right who give the left a pass for much,much worse.
You would make a poor chess player.
In chess, you often have to sacrifice pieces–even pieces as important as the queen–to win the game.
Mr. Akin is hardly the only pro-life Republican candidate available. He beat another one just as conservative, to win the primary.
This is not a chess GAME. This is about common sense and common decency in defense of Republican (not the party — the principles) and Conservative values in American politics.
For decades now, the Left has been able to enforce increasingly maddening rules of political correctness — using the media-incited lynch mobs to hound into oblivion any conservative politician, candidate or public person whose statements can be presented as (or stretched into) “outrageous” transgressions of what THEY DEFINE as unacceptable speech. The GOP establishment, wannabes, professional pundits and hanger-ons (some of whom think of themselves as brilliant political chess strategists) have, in most cases, joined these MSM-led mobs — “in order to preserve our opportunities to win next election.”
Right now might be good time to realize that this “joining the leftist lynch party strategy” has been disastrous to the Conservative causes.
All of the above doesn’t mean that I personally agree with Mr. Akin’s theories on rape-caused pregnancies. But I do agree with him that a child that results from such pregnancy is still a human being deserving all of the protections we give to a person. Therefore, I hope that Rep. Akin — doesn’t resign the nomination he won fairly and squarely in the GPO primary and we will let the good people of Missouri — “show us” that they have sense enough not be swayed by the media-mob piranha-attacks on a conservative candidate’s (admittedly not so brilliant) attempt to reject rape as the reason for killing a baby.
Mormons believe the Garden of Eden is in Missouri. Does anyone think there’s a connection here?
Female reproductive system according to Todd Akin and the GOP.
Vagina = lie hole.
Respecting women accord to Obama’s posse and the Democrats
Considering his past, I wonder what Bill Clinton’s view on this would be?
He’d tell Akins that he’d better put some ice on that LOL
‘Hannity chided Akin to think of the good of the Republican Party.’
The Three Ring Circus couldn’t beat this show.
It’s interesting how all the upper deck Hannity’s on the Titanic would never think of asking Obama to resign for the good of the nation.
This is a disgusting political show from the right who give the left a pass for much,much worse.
News Flash!
The Muslim Brotherhood set to endorse Akin and ‘legitimate rape’.
Allah Akbar!!!
Another News Flash!
As soon as the Muslim Brotherhood endorses Akin, John McCain and Marco Rubio will also endorse him and blame Michele Bachmann for slandering Muslims and diversity.
Yet another News Flash!
Islamic scholars have just found voluminous evidence in the Koran backing up everything Brother Akin has said.
…Proving once again that you are a complete moron.
The media is quickly turning this into “Paul Ryan is a rapist.” Tens of millions of women are going to go to the polls thinking that if Romney is elected, conservatives will be raping them and making them have the baby.
The only hope is for this guy to get out, fast.
For fu*ks sake, people, you think you’re fighting a fair fight here?
Get out the gasoline and burn the guy at the stake! It’s mid-August and there is no replacement! Give the seat to the donkpigs as a gesture of goodwill!
And during the election the Gop will still be forever tarred with this false flag.
It doesn’t matter does it-if as you say, it’s not a fair fight then it’s already over.
Oh – and obummer has outsourced the ballot counting of all the red States to a Spanish company owned by Soros. So it’s game over then! Why even try?
Legitimate Rape is now going to be Obama’s opponent all the way up to November.
Grow up!
I am a grown up. How about you?
This escalation was allowed to happen because the gop – all of them – have allowed the demean to play their tried and true game of deflection.
Why are the gop even answering questions of birth control and abortion (going on to the false flag of rape and incest) when the whole premise began with obama going after the Catholic church to force them to provide birth control and abortion coverage to their employees in violation of the first amendment.
This is an old game and this would never have happened if they had kept on point and refuse to play into a democrat trap.
In fact, most people don’t pay attention until a month or so until the election. If they change course and bury this with facts (1st amendment violation) then that’s what people will remember.
You are No better than the other political baiters. “millions of women?” You make us sound stupid, unsophisticated. You are a hysterical dolt.
Given the colossal success of politicized Feminism over the past several decades, are you really going to make the claim that the majority of women are always logical and rational on these issues?
Keith Ellison set to cross party lines and endorse his fellow “legitimate rape” Muslim, Todd Akin.
The guy said a stupid thing and it likely has destroyed his political career. Them’s the breaks. Who does he think he is, Whoopi Goldberg?
Question: How often do Democrats turn on their own like this? Seems pretty rare to me.
How about Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner
The Anthony Weiner saga seems similar to what is happening now with Mr. Akin.
No. Weiner didn’t SAY anything stupid. He DID something stupid. Ditto for Spitzer. See the difference? Donks get away with saying stupid things all the time.
Guam’s going to tip over, right?
No, I don’t see the difference–because what Mr. Akin said was *NOT* just a dumb remark like forgetting somebody’s name.
It was a deliberate attempt to avoid telling the voters that he believes abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape. That’s what he believes, that’s the type of legislation he wants to see. But rather than try to sell that to voters, he came up with this excuse that oh, well, it doesn’t happen that often.
Which is the mirror image of the excuse that pro-choice liberals use about partial-birth abortion: Oh, well, it doesn’t happen that often. What they really mean is that all types of abortion should be legal in all circumstances.
You are either uninformed or intentionally deceitful. He couldn’t have been more clear on stating his opposition to abortion, including (the incredibly rare) cases of rape conceptions. That was the point of his statement AND why Mitt’s campaign quickly distanced itself from the statements stating emphatically that they disagree and would not support laws to make such cases illegal.
No shortage of easily manipulated by the Left dolts out here.
It would be nice if repubs traded their fear for courage.
The donks are able to cover their stupid a lot more effectively with the media on their side. What works for them won’t work for the GOP. That’s reality. Deal with it.
If they has to jettison their idiots, we’d be minus Joe Biden, Babbs Boxer, Patty Murray, need I go on?
Yes, Dems are superior to Repubs in this way, they support their own people despite their inane words and outrageous behavior. Republicans eat their own.
No. Republicans police their own.
Exactly. Ann Coulter was on Kudlow tonight talking about an excellent candidate (female) who came in second in the primary and could easily replace this guy. If he drops out, she’ll probably win. If his vanity keeps him in, he’ll lose and he’ll be used as Exhibit One for every Dem from Bam to the local candidate for dog catcher claiming that Republicans are anti-woman, anti-science cretins.
Everyone makes the occasional mistake, and the establishment media will exaggerate the slightest Republican error, but this is not a fake controversy/gaffe. Maybe he’s a nice guy, but his comment is a non-recoverable failure. Kaboom. Political career over. Too bad, but for the sake of the country, he needs to go home and let someone else take over.
Oh the great Ann Coulter has spoken. This is the same supposed conservative who tried convincing all to throw their support behind the social liberal Chris Christie? The same Ann who sits on the GOPROUD board?
Thanks, but no thanks. Ann has none of my respect anymore.
The fact is, Akin was not supported by the establishment (which Ann represents), who I’m sure would love to frustrate the will of Missouri voters.
If you people don’t have the stones to defend a candidate following a gaffe, then we are in real trouble. If you don’t think Mitt or Paul will make a gaffe, then you are mistaken. What do we do then, give it to hussein by default?
John Brunner came in second, Sarah Steelman came in third, out of a field of three.
Akin misspoke and he has recanted. If the Senate hinges on this one seat, then let it hinge. That the Republicans hopes are on this one Senate seat is not Mr. Akins fault.
I don’t give a sh!t about Akin’s political ‘career’.
I care about saving this country from socialist scum. And him staying in the race now makes that harder. End of story.
Josh, I don’t believe it is possible to save this country from socialist scum unless we present a united front against the undermining of human life and human dignity. If our countrymen would rather live under socialists who will keep abortion legal than conservatives who would ban the abomination, we deserve to lose our liberty, and I’d rather go to the gallows a martyr for refusing to assent to socialism than live in a libertarian society where babies can be legally slaughtered.
“How often do Democrats turn on their own like this?”
Good but not really the right question. The question most worth asking is “why are Democrat voters willing to ignore stupid blunders and on up to manslaughter, sexual assault, serious accusations of rape, previous Klan membership, tax evasion, and so on and still march like lemmings to the polls and vote for anyone with a “D” behind their name regardless of how big a proven scumbag their candidate is?”. The Democrat Party leadership knows this is the fact and, therefore, they have absolutely no motivation to react by turning their back on their miscreants. By the way, the keynote speaker at the Democrat convention will be a disbarred lawyer, accused rapist, philanderer, recipient of sexual services from a subordinate, liar, perjurer, and impeached officeholder (what have I forgotten to include?) who will receive a standing ovation and the undying love of millions of nitwit viewers and slobbering affection from the media. The same guy with an “R” behind his name would be hooted and jeered off the stage and the media would be aghast. So the real question is “why?”. Come up with an answer to that and you will have revealed the root cause of our current dismal circumstances.
You left out traitor. He allowed LORAL to sell the Chinese the secrets to finally get their ICBMs to actually get airborne without blowing up in exchange for a large cash donation to his campaign.
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-galloway-british-mp-says-sex-with-sleeping-women-isnt-rape-but-bad-manners-2012-8
Well, at least Akin isn’t George ‘muslim’ Galloway
Clarifying that he meant “forcible” rape instead of “legitimate,”
Clarifying? Oh sure being as how “forcible” and “legitimate” sound and are spelled so much alike and are practically synonyms. Just like in Obama’s bio from 1991 where Kenya was mistakenly put down as Obama’s birth place instead of Hawaii as Kenya and Hawaii sound and are spelled so much alike and are practically next door neighbors.
Feral Cat, as Barack Hussein Obama is an exceedingly modest man, he in no way felt a desire to read and admire his own biography on his publisher’s web site, something that I, and perhaps you, might have done many times. Men of Obama’s virtue do not have such urges. For fourteen years his bio was out there and this fine young man felt no need to read it and if he had, he would have corrected this typographical error post haste.
And the assertion of other authors that this publisher had them write their own bios should not be given too much weight. And I heartily agree with your assertion that Hawaii and Kenya are very easily confused, even by someone born and raised in Hawaii. As Obama himself said, Hawaii is in Asia.
Don, I completely agree. The case you made is air tight.
“Legitimate” as opposed to “faked”. As in, the lady complaining later that she actually didn’t give her permission. If you don’t think that happens, you don’t get out much.
If you get so many complaints, perhaps you are doing something wrong.
So, are you saying there’s a right way to rape a woman?
I didn’t think that would go over anyone’s head here, but I had forgotten about you.
The subject was “faked rape” you idiot.
Oh, a “fake rape” is when some slut who couldn’t keep her legs shut just lies because she wants an abortion? Yes, now that you mention it, H.R. 3, the bill that Paul Ryan co-sponsored with Todd Akin differentiates between the sluts that lie and the good girls who were “legitimately” raped. Thanks for clearing that up guys!
Yeah, the “legitimat” thing is grossly out of context. I think any fair look at his statement would yield he was saying legitimate as opposed to a fraudulent claim of rape (as most that are reported to police are buyers remorse, revenge, etc.; if that pisses the lefties out here off, then so be it, fact is fact). Don’t believe it then go talk to your local police officers off the record and you’ll find out.
By the way, it was the Left who has distorted the meaning of rape, not Todd Akin.
Actual rapists should be put to death for their deeds.
Well, according to Todd Akin and the GOP (as evidenced by the party platform) the uterus is able to determine the difference between “legitimate” and “illegitimate” rape. I bet you didn’t even know there was a difference. I was sure news to me.
Not only does your uterus know the difference, but in the case of “legitimate” rape, it will shut down, trapping the the rape-sperm and preventing it from reaching your pure and unspoiled eggs. That means the approximately 32,000 women who become pregnant each year from rape were the victims of illegitimate rape. What’s the difference between legitimate and illegitimate rape? Here are a few scenarios that can help us differentiate between the sneaky liars and the good girls.
Scenario 1: A white virgin female wearing modest clothing is returning to her home after her Wednesday Bible study class. She is accosted at knifepoint by a large, unkempt black man wearing an “Obama 2012” hat, who drags her into an alley and rapes her.
Determination: Legitimate rape. Her uterus shuts down immediately, expelling the rapist’s semen as she prays to God for forgiveness.
Scenario 2: At a party where alcoholic beverages are being consumed, a young woman passes out in a private bedroom. A man of the same age and race finds her and proceeds to have sexual relations as she sleeps peacefully.
Determination: Illegitimate rape. Because the woman’s own moral turpitude is entirely to blame for the situation she was placed in, her uterus is unable to resist her beau’s sperm. It is quite likely that God will bless her with a pregnancy.
Scenario 3: A woman arranges to meet a date she met online at an art gallery. He is boorish and three inches shorter than his profile suggested. She agrees to go back to his apartment only to tell him that she does not want to see him again. But at soon as they get inside he assaults her brutally, keeping her prisoner for three days.
Determination: Illegitimate rape. Because she did not use a Todd Akin-approved dating service (Christian Mingle or eHarmony), the woman in this scenario is responsible both for her own predicament and the child God will now bestow upon her.
Does that help?
How ’bout I give you one: two 16 year olds have consentual sex. Whilst in the midst of the act the girl decides she’s had enough and tells the boy to stop. He says ok in a second and 6 to 12 seconds later he completes the act.
Girlie is upset he didn’t IMMEDIATELY halt and has him arrested, charged, and convicted of rape. 16 year old boy goes to jail and is branded a sex offender for the rest of his life.
How is THAT for ILLIGITIMATE rape?
Is that what kind of children you bring up?
back off a tad and examine his INTENT. He obviously meant “legitimate” as in forcible, real, perpetrated against the will of the rapee. This, as opposed to the common ploy of a women consenting to sex, en joying it, then turning on her partner once she conceives and calling it “rape” when in reality it was not….. to “punish” her partner for impregnating her. This is a common occurrence, and could be defined as a “non-legitimate rape”. In other words, some things called, and even prosecuted as “rape” are in fact not “legitimately” rape.
The man made a statement, with certain intent, which was taken in a sense other than what he intended to say. To toss him under the PC bus at this point is inasne… he’s been put forward in his state, run an otherwise good race, won the primary, and is now set to go on to the general. Let the People of the Great State of Missouri decide whether this man, at this point, will represent THEM for six more years. A huge number of people in that state oppose abortion at any time, for any reason, in any circumstance, valuing the himan life that would be destroyed above the convenience or reputation of any pregnant women. That is THEIR business, let Missouri decide. In another ten weeks or so this will be back in a proper context, and the voters will vote the man, not this overblown misunderstanding. You want “legitimant”? Let the election be a legitimate one. On what basis to the ruling elites in the Republican Party think they can tell Missouri who can/cannot represent THEM? Just more of the establishment elite running the show… same sort of stuff that has sidetracked and eliminated Paul as a legitimate candidate in state after state, the ruling Republican Party hacks pulling strings and determining outcomes, closed-door sessions, exclusions, stuffed ballots, and now, recalling already chosen delegates and denying them their RIGHT to be seated at the Convention.
I hope the people of Missouri refuse to be manipulated by the party goons and their predetermined outcomes….. it is not THEIR decision, it is Missouri’s decision. Back off and LET THEM DECIDE. It is NOT the party’s place to decide for the people.
Let’s see;
Bill Clinton gets a free pass for attempted rape and his accusers get villified.
Al “Sex Poodle” Gore attacks a masseuse and she gets kicked out of the “Berkinstock Tribe” for reporting it.
Akin must go. Rape is rape. The media will suddenly find that to be true, unlike the boys mentioned above.
It may not be fair, but we are not leftists, who permit their annointed to get away with anything as long as the votes pass muster.
Akin didn’t rape anyone.
Why isn’t someone talking about the science of the issue? Akin is right. Most rapes do not end in orgasm by the female, which means there is much less chance of getting pregnant. I’ve read for years that autopsies can tell whether a woman had consensual sex or non-consensual sex in the recent past (say, within 24 hours) by the dissemination of semen in her body. If she had an orgasm, the waves of uterine contractions tend to move the sperm further up into her reproductive tract much more quickly, thus increasing the likelihood of pregnancy.
Bottom line: the guy had a legitimate argument. Yes, pregnancy from rape can and does happen, but it apparently happens a lot less than pregnancy from consensual sex accompanied by orgasm. This response by the Republicans is shameful and cowardly. Moreover, it plays right into the hands of the leftists, who have no qualms whatsoever about defending proven criminals right to the last minute. Anybody remember BJ Clinton, or “Cold Cash” Jefferson?
Yeah. And Guam’s going to tip over. Go away.
What he described is completely correct. But, truth is truth, and politics is politics, and propaganda is propaganda and they rarely meet in the same room.
snork, didja ever stop to think, rather than knee-jerk react, that what the guy REALLY meant was to distinguish between a REAL, ACTUAL, LEGITMATE, GENUINE rape (as in forcible sex) and another common occurrence, where two people agree to tango, she gets pregnant, and later charges “rape” to dump the “responsibility” on her partner after the fact…… these incidents are not “legitimate” rape. Get the difference? Both happen. By the bye, abortion in EITHER case is still the murder of an innocent individual, the child who had nothing to do with its conception, and, by aborting, is denied the first of our most basic three “liberties” guaranteed to all by our Constitution… LIFE. EVERY abortion results in a dead baby. HOW that baby came to be in its mother’s womb is immaterial.
This is NOT the Republican Party’s business, it is the business of one group of people ONLY.. the People of the Great State of Missouri, a huge number of shich agree with this man, that ALL abortion is wrong.
Besides, if the “economy, stupid” is the main issue in thie election, his stance on abortion won’t change a thing. If its war all over the planet, same thing…. or our individual liberties under the Bill of Rights, no issue. Let Missouri decide. I know a number of voters in Missouri who are more likely to vote FOR this man because of his strong pro-life position. It is THEIR decision, not that of the GOP party hacks.
Yes, I believe you are correct, and I’m a real scientist. If we’re going to talk about abortion, let’s talk Claire McCaskill and Obama’s support of partial-birth abotion, i.e. infanticide.
Quite correct.
I’ld love to see a repub with some amount of balls enough to say to the next reporter something to the effect of: “speaking of abortion, why don’t you trot down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and ask hussein why he supported ACTUAL INFANTICIDE by arguing against the born alive act.”
Explain then how Muslim women ever get pregnant, let alone so many times, when they have their clitoris cut out and are told from when they are little girls that only whores get any pleasure from sex.
The guys off message to be talking about abortion anyway.
It’s the economy stupid. The voters who are going to decide this election don’t care about abortion. That’s not to say it doesn’t matter, only to say it doesn’t matter to winning an election in November of 2012.
If Akin isn’t disciplined enough to stay focused, then he’s the wrong candidate anyway.
You are correct that he was off message, but his first mistake was giving validity to the premise in the first place. The original source of all this hogwash was the obama admin going after the Catholic church as an employer to force them to provide birth control and abortion to their employees. The Gop has allowed the demean to change the conversation to this abomination in just a few weeks by having their attack dogs change a few words here and there until the discussion is now a war against women and denial of all birth control and prohibiting all abortions.
We should know this game by now and they (all of them) should never have strayed from the original outrage of government overreach into religious freedom.
Demean=dems.
Blasted spell correct.
This is a total no-brainer: he’s an idiot and a jerk. He needs to go.
He should stay, if only to aggrevate the cowardly Republicans. You know the ones who cut and run at the slightest provocation.
he should stay. this race is NOT the race of the GOP hacks, it is of, and for, the people of Missouri, and THEY, they alone, should be left to decide. They’ve already put him on the ballot. Let them decide. If they toss him now, who will replace him at this late date? If he had raped a women focibly and tried to deny it, then we’ve got an ethics issue. This did NOT happen.. there is NO ethics issue. Or at least, not one calling for ending his race. take abouut ethics, how about that kinyun living on Pennsylvania Avenue, demanding (as if HE were king or dictator) that ELL insurance policies MUST include coverage for certain “proceedures” and “products” that millions of Americans find morally objectionable? Hey, I am the consumer of that policy, allow ME the discretion to choose the ooverage I want, rather than be told what I MUST purchase. Talk about a moral issue… Missourians, in huge numbers, oppose this “mandate”. They also oppose abortion in ANY circumstance, and will be likelty to favour a candidate who does, and does so unashamedly. It is Missouri’s election, not the GOP’s. Let THEM decide. Stay in, and fight hard.
Right now we’re at a crossroads to save our lives and the lives of honest and peaceful people all over the world.
It harms our own survival when candidates from our side, the side of life, sound off, off key.
However, I wonder if we’re not in a Galileo situation, because the candidate made a statement of scientific fact that can be tested, but hasn’t yet been.
However, let’s put aside for the moment the question of whether our ever-so-bloated Federal Government has the funding, mandate, and personnel to test whether rape victims can somehow possibly control whether they become impregnated.
Without a scientific trial, it remains possible this candidate was correct, only 100 years ahead of his time.
That said, with President Obama’s Federal funds being limited to financing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sharia crucifixion squads, we hardly have the funding for hardly *any* objective scientific inquiries for the next 100 years (or however many thousand years the New Dark Ages last).
Fergawdsake. It would be one thing if there was a legitimate controversy in the scientific community. There isn’t. Thus guy was just shooting his mouth off out of his anus. Not all crackpot theories deserve funded research.
This isn’t like global warming, where some very heavy hitters in the scientific community aren’t buying the party line. This is just verbal diarrhea. The guy’s a loose cannon. Toss him overboard.
It doesn’t help that your argument sounds exactly like Pope Paul V’s “bargain you can’t refuse” to Galileo…
However, I agree that not every useless fact has to be definitively proven or disproven. Everyone agrees that much more is at stake in the here and now than contemporary PC scientific principles.
Actually, he’s only guilty what they are all guilty of – allowing the democrats to change a discussion on the overreach of government onto a religious institution/employer (Catholic University) to force them to provide birth control and abortions to their employees. They have allowed the dems to change it to a war on all women with the media’s help.
They (the Gop) should not be answering any questions on whether the Gop stands for a woman getting an abortion in the case of tape or incest – they shouldn’t play the game wt all. Everytime they are asked one of these stupid questions they should turn it right back on the media.
They should be clear about this – EVERYTIME! They should ALWAYS respond that this is NOT about birth control OR abortion! It’s about government overreach into the affairs of a religious employer. I’d even go so far as to throw the whole separation of church and state here (since in this case it actually applies) that the left is so fond of, that THIS is what theft should be concerned with and not some Christmas tree in a school. Make THEM defend it.
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Without surrendering scientific principles, I love the harmonizing in this song by The Roches, called Quitting Time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95csNRy7b64
It seems to me that it is YOU who have surrendered by allowing dems to define the debate.
The faint hearted Republicans, always ready to bail on anybody, just like the sponsors who fled from Rush Limbaugh. Stay in Mr. Akin. Claire McCaskill is bad for Missouri and America. If she gets re-elected, we deserve her.
I would love to know the opinion in regard of the stoning of raped women from all those nice Muslims at Obamas iftar dinner.
What does Huma think? Is stoning offendig or hurting the women?
as the left circle the wagons the right stampedes each other to be the first in line to excommunicate
what if the very first response by the republican chorus was silence and crickets?
the left has cried wolf so many times that this would have been inconsequential
i was on pj media this morning – pretty normal; get home to do a couple things and the world is coming to an end a few hours later when i log back on
i must have been in the sun too long because what he said did not seem like a big deal to me (other than talking about the “A” word)- it was garbled to be sure but it wasnt apocalyptic – was it? it was stupid but could have been defended if need be
the left would say what they are now saying even if the words never escaped akin’s lips in the first place
my problem is with the reaction from the repubs
Yeah, me too. The GOP has too many pussies.
You’re right. When the donks say incredibly stupid shit, the media hides it, and when that doesn’t work they spin it. Remember when the MSM talked about the donk who wondered if Guam was going to tip over? Me neither.
It’s not right when they do it and it’s not right when the GOP does it, either. The difference is there are so many drooling 2 and 1 digit IQ morons on the donk side, it’s net even remarkable anymore when they pull Bidens. This stands out because its so rare. And it should stay that way.
Is he possibly waiting to get some offer to pay his existing campaign debts? He must realize at this point with Hannity, Coulter, Levin, plus leaders in the Senate and PACS encoraging him to resign that he has no viability.
Why? All he has to do is redirect the conversation where it belongs. That this whole thing started because obama has declared war on religion by trying to force a religious employer to provide birth control to their employees against the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. And if they (the msm) continue he should point out that it was the DNC and the memo who changed it to a war on women.
If they continue, rope-a-dope them. Just keep bringing it back to obamas war on religion.
Groan! Memo=msm.
Lolly:
Looks like you may need to disable your autocorrect!
But that said, you’re not alone: http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/archive/
: )
Thanks – I’m on it. I see that the auto correct keeps changing dems to demean – all over the place. Annoying!
President Obama’s policy on contraceptive services and the healthcare plans that are required to provide them are part of the Affordable Care Act. The ACA was determined to be constitutional, so your claim that the policy regarding contraception being un-constitutional is in error. It is legal. It is the law of the land. If you don’e like it them change it. Otherwise stfu.
The Democrats laugh at how easily they get the flaky Republicans to throw their own overboard for something Biden does everyday.
I can’t stomach the flake party which the diabolical Obama gangsters have running from their own shadow.
It’s a bad sign of whats coming.
This Muslim like creep has had plenty of time to withdraw with some dignity. Time to bring out a grappling hook.
Joe Biden here. A great gift to Barack and me from Allah – three letters – A K I N!
I voted for Akin in our primary , he has deeply felt beliefs , the problem is he is too honest at the wrong time . I understood what his statement meant but he put his foot in the mouth when he could have easily defeated McCaskill . I don’t know what he should do, perhaps he should step down, Steelman or Bruner would be excellent conservative Senators. I still stay its unfortunate , I feel he is being persecuted for his honesty.
A person of “faith” hit with reality. Is there anything more pathetic under the sun?
Agree or not, but Rep. Akin will withdraw from the race before 5 PM Tuesday.
Yes, folks… there is and will always be a double standard.
The one simple statement by Malatrope says it all, “We police our own”.
Simple fact – we have to… because of what we stand for.
It is the cross we will always bear.
Rep. Akin has no choice and he knows it, because the very last thing he would ever want to become… is the one reason that kept us from saving America and our futures from the certain fiscal train-wreck ahead.
Everybody knows that someone can’t cut you with a knife, unless you want them too, like if they are a surgeon, otherwise your body just shuts down that knife..
What in God’s name happens to these guys??? All he had to do was keep to the talking points and then keep his mouth shut for a few months and he would have had a Senate seat handed to him. Our conservative candidates have so much going against them with the media pounding them all day, every day that they require discipline and purpose to win. Bill Clinton could get away with actually raping women but our candidates cannot even make a slip. It is reality and the sooner that they accept and act on that the better. If there is a viable Republican female to take his place, and some above have indicated that there is, he needs to step aside. There is just too much at stake in this election but will his ego let him. My gosh, Harry Reid must be sleeping quite well now. My 2 cents.
Cap this guy’s ass……. Now!!!1!………
I am a woman and the GOP has presently lost my vote. At this point I don’t care what happens to the country unless we be breakin’ Akin’s kit right off for this mendacious travesty. I am so mad Imma just gonna lose it….DDDDDDX………..
‘Zat you, Charles Icarus Johnson?
Maybe Sharmuta…..
‘Kay lolly, you pinned my ears back. He should still get out of the race, though…..XDDDDDD……….
Gotta love it. Just like the trained guppies the GOP are, eating their own at the first sign of a problem, they still dance to the drummer of the Democrats who demand standards of Republicans they are not willing to adhere to themselves.
The Republicans are so scared that the Democrats might say something bad against them, they would axe murder their own mothers to please the Dems.
A pox on all of them.
The fact that the Democrats habitually circle the wagons around their asshats is nothing at all to be admired. It’s high time we all started expecting more from our politicians. Someone who harbors views of the nature that Akin does has no business serving the public’s interests in any shape, matter or form. I applaud the party’s efforts to expunge itself of this cretin. It’s because of dolts like him that the Republican Party struggles so with the image of being a home for dumb, knuckle-dragging apes.
Yeah – imagine thinking that a baby is a human being with a right to life. The nerve! What knuckle dragging monsters to think that human beings have a right to be born.
But again you are playing the dems game of bait and switch. Remember this is about forcing a religious employer to provide birth control and abortions to their employees against the 1st amendment.
Critical thinking dictates that a candidate is only acceptable until he/she is no longer acceptable. This isn’t “eating their own”, it’s pruning a diseased limb.
The TEA party is about one thing: economic policy. Just because the TEA party supports a candidate’s stance on economic policy does not mean it supports all the candidate’s stances.
How many times have I and others written on this site about the trap of getting bogged down in “social issues”? This is exactly where the left wants to focus the discussion; arguing about what other people do with their reproductive system instead of what other people are stealing. . . from us.
PLEASE go to Akin’s website
http://www.akin.org/
and demand he quit TODAY!
You cannibals in a panic are a joke.
Divided we sink and that’s what you’re doing,Ed.
The cannibal party is eating their own while the Demarxists laugh and tell each other how easy it was to initiate a bloodbath withing the divided party that lost it’s foundation long ago.
Thanks – I went to his website to demand that he stop allowing the dems to frame the discussion and bring it back to the fact that obama has declared war on religion by forcing a religious employer to provide abortion and birth control to its employees against the 1st amendment.
I went ahead and called the number, after sending yet another e mail to the cretin’s campaign . The phone number doesn’t work. I re dialed to make sure I dialed correctly , same thing : A recording asking me for a PIN number, to leave a voice mail message. A PIN number-what??? He lists a telephone number on his website, claims he would “love to hear” from prospective voters, and the number is apparently set up just for a private network of users, or something. Good grief!
I hope the Republicans have more options here than just waiting for this cretin to graciously deign to withdraw before he costs us all chance not just at getting rid of McCaskill, but of controlling the Senate and quite possibly of re taking the WH. BHO lost MO by only 3,500 votes. Granted , things have changed much in 4 years, but if Republican turn out is depressed by this fiasco, who knows what the fall out could be? How many Republicans nationwide are going to be hurt by one idiot’s remarks?
In any case, this fiasco is NOT going to wind down, as the idiot Akin obviously believes. He needs to go, before it’s too late.
If your left tackle can’t stop the defensive end from sacking your quarterback, maybe you should replace him.
I see we have a ‘lizard girdle’ infestation: I had hoped she stayed over at AToL.
You can’t condemn the party for one goon, and I will say that there are a lot who believe as he does, in the state.
Hey lizard girdle, remember all your rants about collective guilt? Get over it that is the Obamanoid posture.
It’s obvious what Akin meant by “legitemate rape” was NOT rape that’s ok, but accusations of rape that are true, as possosed to false claims, and further, he mean’t to say that pregnancy is rare in cases of rape when compared to consentual sex.
Neither of these ideas are reprehensible. People like about rape, and conception is less likely in instances of rape. These are the two things he mean’t to say. So what?
I hope Akin stays in.
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It’s obvious what Akin meant by “legitemate rape” was NOT rape that’s ok, but accusations of rape that are true, as opposed to false claims, and further, he mean’t to say that pregnancy is rare in cases of rape when compared to consentual sex.
Neither of these ideas are reprehensible. People lie about rape, and conception is less likely in instances of rape. These are the two things he mean’t to say. So what?
I hope Akin stays in.
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Thank You!
It’s amazing how this stupid issue manage to get out of control. An explanation and more cooler heads.
One should wonder how much comments in PJMedia in this issue were made by trolls hoping to fan the flames of this issue.
As I said, we should just ignore it and let it die.
Never mind that wants to convince us that he’s not dumber than a box of rocks. Never mind what he said.
He should get out of the race now that he knows McCaskill engineered his nomination and begs him to remain in the race.
Is he really dumber than even he appears to be? Can he really be so full of himself that he thinks he’s the best chance to beat the woman who made him the candidate?
The problem is not Akin, it’s the Republican Party and conservatives as a whole. Everyone makes mistakes and have their own weird comments (I’m looking at you Mitt “I don’t care about the poor” Romney). Speaking of Romney, if we really held our candidates to high standards, than he really wouldn’t be running right now.
If we weren’t so ready to throw Akin under the bus, this turdstorm wouldn’t really go as far as it did. We could’ve defend him without acknowledging his comments, we could’ve ignore this issue as to not give it attention, we could’ve shift the attention to the incompetent incumbent McCaskill, but noooo. Of course, there’s also liberal trolls fanning the flames of this issue, but the fault really lies on the conservative side.
I’d say one of the main differences between the left and the right is that the right has standards of behavior.
Akin clearly crossed that line with the majority of conservatives.
Those on the left are not held accountable to the same standards of behavior, but the solution is to get the rest of the county to embrace those standards rather than lowering them to no more than we’d expect from the left.